Just to elaborate upon yesterday’s entry, on thursday evening I got a message over facebook from Charlie asking if I wanted to meet her yesterday. She was coming for a flying visit, and the plan was that I’d go to Peckham to meet up with her friend Emma*, who would then take me to wherever C was. I thought ”why not” and agreed. As I said yesterday, I thought it would be a house party or small get-together of some kind. I initially thought I’d go alone in my powerchair, but I don’t know that neck of the woods very well, so I asked Dominik if he wanted to come with me. He said Ok, and I went in my manual chair, Dom pushing me. Looking back, I’m very glad I did that.

Neither of us had any idea what we were in for. We met up with Emma as planned, who then took us on to another bus to Brixton. Things were getting interesting.

Once off the bus, she lead us down some winding paths and into a park; and I suddenly entered the biggest festival I had ever seen. We were in the Lambeth County Show, and it was huge: the air thronged with music; people – tens of thousands of them – were everywhere.

Once in the park, Emma left us to go find Charlie and her friends, returning not long after. She then lead us across the field through the crowd (again, I was glad I hadn’t taken my powerchair) to where my old friend was. She was having a whale of a time, and greeted me with hug. Lots more of her friends were there, and I spent the next hour or so socialising and listening to the music on the main stage. My only regret was not bringing lyn: had I known this was what C had had in mind, I would have brought her along.

A while later, though, I needed the loo, so I asked Dom to push me to the bogs. We then decided to take a walk to see the stalls. It was massive, and took us ages to get around. At one point we got slightly lost. When we got back to where C and her group were, then, they were gone: Dom looked, but couldn’t find them anywhere. A while later, we were told they had moved on.

With that, we left too. It had been a great afternoon; it was good to see C, of course, and also great to be invited to such a wonderful event. I hadn’t even known it was on. Dom pushed me back to Peckham, where we got a great pizza (I was famished) before heading home. Charlie had done it again, and I made a mental note: when she invites you somewhere, be prepared for anything.

*Not the one from university.